Post-Colloquium Travel Stories...
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    I'm sure I'm not the only one who has a good one...

    After Mass on Sunday I went out with some choir members who had made the trek up to the closing Mass for lunch. After lunch, they decided they were going to the casino and I decided I was going home, having been to the casino already earlier in the week. They gave me directions and I asked if any of the roads involved tolls. They said no.

    I left and followed their directions, stopping by Starbucks and using my last few cash-dollars to buy a coffee. Then I entered a road and had to take a ticket... It was a toll road. But I had no cash. After driving on the toll road for about 2 hours I stopped at a Service Station to use at ATM and get some money.... I had to be entering Ohio soon, I told myself. Then getting back on the highway I began thinking about American geography (I'm Canadian and don't know my way around your country quite yet). Why on earth was I going east, when Ohio was west of PA?

    I was going the wrong way.
    I had been going the wrong way for two hours.
    U-Turns are not allowed on the toll highway.
    There aren't many stops.

    So I decided that I'd get off at the next exit and turn around, knowing that I'd have to pay double a toll that I never had to pay in the first place... The next stop wasn't for 45 minutes.

    I left lunch at 2:45PM and arrived home at 10:20PM, due to traffic, my idiocy, and construction zone speed limits...
  • gregpgregp
    Posts: 632
    There were 8 of us gathered in the D concourse at the airport between 3 and 4. We were tempted to sing "If Ye Love Me" again, but without Horst it just wouldn't be the same...
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    It would have been interesting to put a hat out for donations :-)
  • Carl DCarl D
    Posts: 992
    I am quite sad that I didn't get a few people together in a stairwell someplace to capture a recording of "If Ye Love Me." But I missed the opportunity.

    My travel story is still in progress. I was at a business meeting this morning (Monday) and then on flights from Philly to Minneapolis, then Denver. The second flight got cancelled, so at present I'm in a hotel near Mall of America. In theory I'm returning home tomorrow night, but I'll only believe once we're in the air.

    But I have all this great music in my head and new ideas and friends. I have no complaints.

    Carl
  • Flambeaux
    Posts: 45
    Given the sky outside of the Pittsburgh airport when the 8 of us were gathered in D Concourse, I was going to suggest the Dies Irae...but that might have had unfortunate consequences given the overall humorlessness of our TSA Overlords.
  • RagueneauRagueneau
    Posts: 2,592
    Flambeaux, are you Chris Cain?

    contact me
  • Chris AllenChris Allen
    Posts: 150
    I spent Sunday afternoon, after wandering around for the good part of an hour looking for the stop for the airport bus, picking up a rental car and checking into a nearby hotel, then dinner at the Church Brew Works (I overheard one of the local gentlemen in Dr Mahrt's polyphony choir mention it). Yesterday was Point State Park, the Fort Pitt Museum, and the Carnegie Science Center. Right now I'm on my way from Atlanta to LA--AirTran and several other carriers now have inflight WiFi for $13/24 hours. In to LAX in about three hours, home in three more.
  • Charles in CenCA
    Posts: 2,416
    I dislocated my shoulder Monday AM and spent the rest of daytime at Mercy Hos. Near Dusquesne. In SF now, almost home....more to follow.
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,978
    Oh no! Sounds like someone had a little too much of that Pittsburgh Kool-Aid. ;-) Prayers for your speedy recovery.
  • Charles in CenCA
    Posts: 2,416
    CtB, Thank you, but no, we were sight seeing at the junction of 3 Rivers IN THE MORNING! No Koolaid or other beverages involved.
    Pittsburgh is great save for the worst sidewalks ever.I saw many of us take similar falls last week.
    And I really hate typing with one hand.
    Home now.
    Bye
  • JennyJenny
    Posts: 147
    Charles! What a shame you waited until my husband and I were gone. We would have fixed you right up!

    I have an unexpected chance to sing Vespers this evening (very plain, not at all Dr. Mahrt-like). I will offer up the time and the chant for you (and your bride, who I suspect, needs some prayer, too!)
  • marajoymarajoy
    Posts: 783
    my friend Joe and I were driving back to Detroit. We stopped for dinner in a suburb of Cleveland, right by where he had lived for a couple years while growing up. Since the church Joe had grown up in was right across the street, we decided we had to peek in and see if anything was going on...

    What a culture shock to walk in to the closing song of a Life Teen Mass, complete with drums, guitars, and no one singing except the priest, musicians, and a couple other old people in the congregation. ("musical heaven" was abruptly disrupted!)

    oh yes, we have our work cut out for us....
  • don roy
    Posts: 306
    charles
    Im so sorry about what happened to you... prayers for a speedy recovery. Knowing your other half, your in good hands.
  • Maureen
    Posts: 678
    I'm sorry people had trouble finding the bus stop. I guess we should have taken a bigger group trip up back of the hospital on Blvd of the Allies to figure out where it was....

    I was over at the D concourse also, though I was too tired to hang out much. It was good to see people, though. I ended up catching my 2:40 flight to Detroit at 9:30 or so, and got to Detroit way too late for my connection, so I camped out on the airport floor for the night. (I thought I saw another CMAA person there across the concourse, but I was way way way too tired to socialize at that point.) I didn't fly out on Monday till 3:30 in the afternoon, and finally got back to my place about 5 PM.

    It was an adventure!
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